in reply to Any improvement over the code possible??

Add input checking. If I input "2" and "F", the code tells me the average is 1. That is probably not how you want the code to behave. Look at Scalar::Util::looks_like_number.

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Re^2: Any improvement over the code possible??
by Rohit Jain (Sexton) on Sep 21, 2012 at 17:08 UTC

    Thanks for reply :)

    I tried out this code.. but its not giving what I expected. Is it how it works??

    #!/perl/bin
use v5.14;
use Scalar::Util;

say &Scalar::Util::looks_like_number('2');

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    I haven't studied till packages and modules.. So, don't know exactly how to use them..

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      its not giving what I expected
      You need to tell us what you expect it to do. Or read the doc I linked to: 
      looks_like_number EXPR

Returns true if perl thinks EXPR is a number.

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        If I write like this: -

        say looks_like_number '2'

        It should return false as I understand.. but its not printing anything

        Neither in the case I give there a number 2

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